Re: NEWS Server

Jacob Suter (jsuter@intrastar.net)
Thu, 31 Oct 1996 13:19:29 -0600

> Make sure your upstream provider will allow "sucking". I believe
> this is how DNews works, it sucks, could be wrong, but UUNET
> won't allow us to suck. ;)

I cranked up DNews here.... Ya, it sucked. Sat its hairy arse in 26 megs
of memory too, and tried to saturate the CPU in my server (5x86/160)....
but it was a bit faster than just pulling it directly from my upstream.

What I have been told is that most providers will allow a DNews suck,
because it only sucks when a customer is viewing something, so its
basically a cache....

I couldn't see the great advantage, maybe I am missing something, but well,
it reeked and it sucked.

JS